Guild Wars 2

Was going to post the same thing. Restart worked and downloading.

Same here.

messagelenghtening

For me that’s the great thing, grind is “optional” for fluff, not for content. Not sure if you read the review at all, everyone get’s to see the dragon.

It’s hard for me to … comprehend, perhaps my playstyle is vastly different and I do play 3-5 characters more regularly. My “main” just turned 80 and is venturing down to finish the personal storyline, max crafting I have probably around 150 if that, a bit over 50% world exploration. Finding new things in maps that I thought I knew with the third character etc.

I have done one jumping puzzle. Did PvP once and was in WvW maybe three times. Only did AC on story so far.

That is all and I have to confess I’ve been spending quite some time in the game, think around 270 hours so far.

PvP without reward … what reward does there have to be? You are winning, why make you more powerful? I really thought the mindset would be in a sense of getting a highscore. Refine your playstyle and get better etc.

No checking what your gearscore is before a dungeon, awesome? Granted if that was ever the only drive then, yes.

I remember for myself years back, a new world opened up. No thoughts about min-maxing. Adventure awaiting. Then came the years of counting. Numbercrunching. Checking lists online. Dropchances. Useless stats. Only do this dungeon every day and hope your item drops. Hope you win against the others rolling for it. Riding in circles to farm nodes. Cursing if someone else was faster.

I’m not quite there yet, but I am opening my eyes slowly and seeing adventure again. Usually after I’ve done my daily chores … pardon, achievement. But I’m getting better.

I would tend to agree on the transmutation stones, then again the whole model is very generous in itself so…

Kruunch.3714:

I often find that if you have to explain to someone how to enjoy your game, then you’ve done it wrong.

Or I’ve done it wrong (certainly a possibility).

But since it’s my money I won’t be spending with said company, either way, they’re still getting the short end of the stick.

You see? It’s not a question of right or wrong.

Yes and no. Obviously design choices have been made, there is a certain vision.

Like someone else who posted something about how Planetside2 is so much better. Well, I am not interested in that game. Should I go there and then tell them I want story, exploration etc etc when that is not the point?

I find this game very refreshing and let me state that I have no issue with your opinion per se, but if you have done everything in two months already because it was on the checklist and now you are bored because you have nothing else to check off, then what could anyone here potentially say? Rinse and repeat posts, smell the roses, enjoy exploration, just wander around and help out a town. You don’t want to look good – or better you looked at everything available online and you are happy in that regard already (nothing wrong with it) – but you want or need the next cycle for higher stats … well good for you.

The only thing that I can tell you is that I left other games because I got tired of having to hunt the next gen set of stats – at least that is the mindset you get into given the game mechanics. Do 100 daily quests here, this dungeon another 100 times. Oops, there comes the next expansion, increase now reputation with 100 daily quests here …

I don’t have to explain to you how to enjoy your game, you asked “now what?” and thus people are trying to help, that’s all.

Again, have fun in whatever you decide.

Good thing you did not pour the vodka over your monitor!

Not sure if they are soulbound or account bound, perhaps you can just create a new character, put it in the bank and see if your other character can equip them.

I had just read this myself the other day and it just rang true to me. Perhaps it helps. I linked to page 3 because there is the relevant stuff in regards to these “issues”.
Whatever you do, have fun.

http://www.pcgamer.com/review/guild-wars-2-review/3/

I only had a “problem” once washing the cows as a charr. The animation showed them as “stinky” but it didn’t always work. First time I did that I had no problems.

For the time being I have mentally closed that topic. I will look at this again once I’ve participated (if I’m able to) at the whole event.
I think the reactions are understandable, the “big ticket” items seem to be only available in the shop at the moment – I agree with Latorn.

I was thinking the same thing as Arthur (can’t quote directly) –
9 normal mad vs 1 epic mad

ponders

Dang that’s a good password, how come I can never come up with those.

More of a long term goal.

http://gw2.mmorpg-life.com/crafting-the-halloween-exotics/54244/

In my opinion this is all fine and dandy for the game itself. I look at festivals differently. Honestly I don’t care if everyone has the same item, as long as I like it I will use it. The next event will come, the next item will be out and people can swap. All over sudden you hardly see the “in” item from years ago and if you do you go like …. yaah, that right, I got that in the vault too.

Really depends on my mood and if I might not have long to play (like to find or wait for DE). So I either just play any character I feel like, or I jump in between them to speed up the process and distribute the little extra xp bonus. You get a tad more silver for doing it with a higher level, not sure if it’s relevant how much or if it only has to be the last thing.

spacemayu.4817:

Rouven.7409:

Perhaps scaling the doors to map level. If you are too high you get the message: These are not the doors you are looking for. waves hand

Might be more something for the future. It’s tops another week if the coming acts don’t drive the masses somewhere else.

Except the doors are only in three zones.

I think it’s pretty clear that the OP wants to farm the doors too… or why else would he hang around the farming locations?

Yes, I wasn’t clear enough. I meant that in addition to having doors in higher level zones as well.

Not claiming to have made it up myself, the only one I could translate to the Mad King, maybe widen it to Halloween in general.

What do you call a fat Mad King? A plumpking.

Perhaps scaling the doors to map level. If you are too high you get the message: These are not the doors you are looking for. waves hand

Might be more something for the future. It’s tops another week if the coming acts don’t drive the masses somewhere else.

I hereby solemnly vow, that, shalt the Black Lion Chest Spirits be willing, so I win the almighty anything – I shalt parade Lion’s Arch from sun-up til sun-under, proclaiming myself the win. I shalt do so with chat bubbles on for myself to see and not to be unseen. High and yonder from the rooftops and the hidden caves.

Hey, if it helps?? lol

Hehe, like the latest one. Too bad my wife isn’t playing lol

Zyava.2430:

You guys should probably read this more carefully: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/events/halloween-2012.

“Halloween with the Black Lion Trading Company
Available from October 22 to November 5” in the header.

And just below:

The Black Lion Chest is getting a spooky upgrade for Halloween. Between October 23 and November 5 each Black Lion Chest you open has a chance to give you one of six exclusive Halloween-themed weapon skins!

If you used all of your keys yesterday or today, no wonder you did not get any of those skins, as they aren’t even available yet.

Check the dev tracker, it was stated after downloading the update it’s good to go.

It’s been like that since day one.

If the cauldron is a skill bound to the costume then it should stay.

Nemea Clawfire is my female charr engineer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemean_lion

Love Tini Stark btw, hilarious

Well, what the current system does in my opinion is penalize people with certain playstyles. Basically what you have to do in order to stay on top of this is to maximize your gold income with your highest level character. If you play 5 or more characters you are already at a disadvantage. Seeing how the price jumped just now.

Of course this is not a problem per se, but discouraging nevertheless.

A couple of weeks ago there was a sweetspot in my opinion. For 40 silver you could trade 100 gems. This is a price that everyone will be able to afford some after a playing session even with mid level characters. That encourages me to buy some with real money for the larger ticket items, and slowly I will be able to buy “fun” things on the side.

Well, there is my input. In essence, contrary to the real economy out there I can chose not to participate – this is something to be considered, no need to be an economist.

For the time being I will likely continue to buy $20 per month and probably an extra $20 right now for the holidays. That is because I really like the game and I have no quarrels supporting it. If it get’s too expensive and I find myself to think too much about the conversion rate and how many hours I might have to spend to afford another 100 gems … then a huge “fun-factor” will be gone.

Don’t see it mentioned yet – not sure if you’ve done your personal story.

Can’t edit above – the kitten was supposed to be the word that comes before sapiens for example … should have guessed it would be kittened out.

I still don’t like that the skill order was changed.

On the bright side I’m mainly playing my alts right now

I think that usually happens when you have different built races and a height slider.
I wonder if summoning your own chair would work easier (to be implemented).

You have to talk to the NPC’s. Sometimes even after a fight. Some hearts have those options – but not always all three of them. Talk to all the “speed” buffer in Lion’s Arch as well. It’s a bit here and there, but that makes it all the more precious for myself.

Ah yes, more branching and less “steps” ok, I was more thinking along the line of all the different variants of kitten XYZ’s that … well died out for one reason or another and iirc in some cases that was because of their next more successful relative driving them out or worse.

I still don’t know where this comes from though. Of course this is a fantasy environment, but shouldn’t there be some sort of however far fetched reasoning as to why?

Leiloni.7951:

Well honestly for most major MMO releases lately, even smaller ones like TERA and TSW, there are dedicated fansites with lots of good info before the game even is out, so expecting there to be fan created content for a game as big as GW2 is not at all unreasonable.

Perhaps the format simply suits the purpose. The only thing I can compare it to are the datacrons in SWTOR, quite honestly, some of those picture-by-picture guides where cumbersome to use.

Maybe I don’t understand this correctly, but I only need guides for the vista’s and jumping puzzles. Maps to complete the zones (location of POI’s if you missed one etc) are out there and databases and guides for crafting as well.

I had the luck of a key dropping recently and then four more keys dropping off the chests themselves.

Yes – at the current price I am not inclined to buy the keys. However, compared to the prices of the consumables you get it’s not too bad, it’s just that for me it’s more of a bonus.

One benefit would be that they are universal – usually no words are needed. Contrary to popular belief not everyone is in command of the english language. (Edit: By this I mean that the game is played in several countries, hey, I watched a french video for some vista and it helped – not that I speak much french.)

I am somewhat shocked that apparently everyone who watches a youtube video ends up not playing anymore but instead watching all sorts of other stuff. Perhaps those easily distracted people will follow any type of link regardless, so I would not matter.

Thanks to everyone who puts the video’s out there, I for one appreciate it and I’m not concerned with the format.

I agree with the part about tldr and maintaining the wiki.

At the end of the day you are talking about fan created content and to me it comes across as a bit ungrateful complaining – after a bit over a month, that no one has designed a huge website already.

Well, the first retail store I went to that sells the game did not have the gem cards showing in their system as ordered. Sure I can phone around …

Bard.7215:

So, generally when a franchise gives a theory out about the origin of a race and adds “speculator”, this is generally a sign that the “answer is right in front of you”. I’ve witnessed this time and time again in several franchises.

With this in mind, it’s pretty obvious that the Kodan are right, the norn evolved from them.
(…)

I must have missed that, where does this “speculator” come from?

It’s a shame then that we apparently lost the ability to create some powerful magical artifacts. I’m more of a wolf-norn but Kodan is always good.
Usually, in evolutionary terms, … doesn’t the previous step …. vanish/die out? Unless it just happened recently maybe.

Definitely looking forward to it – hoping that I won’t miss out on too much in case I can’t log in a day or two.

Is there a list of retailers anywhere, or are there plans to make one available?

Thanks

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/What-does-kitten-mean/first#post285118

Hope that helps.

penatbater.4710:

I want a headgear cosmetic skin that actually removes your head, making you… headless :p then all we need is a horse…

I know right? Could be a wooden horse stick!

I found this site really informative and nice.

http://www.thearma.org/essays/2HGS.html

Just to read about greatswords – got nothing to do with the animation here, some poses pretty much on the bottom on the page.

I’m fine with the animation.

Thanks Cancer – then I shall prefer to hold my head in my hand

I doubt it will be a problem anytime soon, but I agree – have the icon only come up in WvW maps.

Pumpkin heads – or make me the headless rider … look at me, I’m on a … where is my horse?

Ghost mystery tonic … or does that exist already?

Planetside 2? Well there’s a game I’m not interested in. Might be superfun, not trying to knock it or anything, but I don’t think it’s the same type of game.

Anyways, good luck!

Edit to above – no, my mistake, it’s those scars, I just hardly see them because of mask and tats.

Art.9367:

ColinJohanson.2394:

I feel like the sandwichmancer class remains horribly unbalanced, NERF IT ANET!

Is that a reference to the super secret expansion class?

<em>YOU HEARD IT RIGHT HERE, FOLKS!</em>

Skills will require Roasted Meaty Sandwiches. No worries I’ll put some on the TP tonight.

lol

Huh, I’m sure my character has different scars (referring to the wiki link above) – will have to check tonight.

They are always symmetric though, which makes them somewhat “beautiful”.

Looks like T2 – just scroll down.
http://dulfy.net/2012/07/21/gw2-armor-previews/

Now, I don’t have it yet, but as far as I understand the pirates outfit comes with a set of skills as well. I would not like to sacrifice those.

But – there could be a second set, like the armour skins – just now you would have to remove the armour class restriction. Not sure if that is possible with the tech.

MajorMelchett.6042:

Am i the only 1 who doesn’t want to know a thing about it?, to me the best bit is the surprise of everything and seeing it ingame for the 1st time – without knowing anything about it at all.

Heck i still think the dragon event in one of the zones (won’t state which) was awesome, i made sure not to read anything on when/where they show up, so when it appeared it was a total OMG! moment.
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So please, Anet don’t put anything about it on the easy to see places (launcher etc) so i can be surprised and not know what will happen before i even get to it.

Just found it, it’s o the main page lower right, easy to overlook if you go to the forums right away.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/events/halloween-2012

Colin, just to clarify, what blog do you mean?

This one here indicates it will no longer be updated

http://www.arena.net/blog/category/guild-wars-2

Just want to make sure I’m not missing out!

Thanks

I guess this could help as well

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Let-s-see-some-thief-pics/first#post63388

Good luck.